NT Corrections recruited 150 personnel last year with 50 newly graduated prison officers also coming on board last week, the Corrections Commissioner says, but the department is still struggling to get on top of record levels of inmates and the persistent problems of overcrowding and low staff retention rates.
Three people have been hospitalised amid ongoing unrest in Wadeye over the weekend, which has reportedly seen up to 300 people fighting in the community with homemade weapons and vehicles, NT Police said.
A massive expansion of the Territory’s gas industry in the Beetaloo Basin and at the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct could emit more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the next 25 years, casting doubts on the NT Labor Government’s pledge to achieve its net zero emissions target by 2050, climate experts have said.
Police had to shoot crocodiles to allow them to recover a ute with a man’s body inside from a creek at Dundee Downs on Friday afternoon, after the vehicle crashed into the water near a boat ramp on Thursday afternoon, NT Police said.
Alice Springs businesses including a childcare centre went into a snap lockdown Friday after violent fighting erupted on the streets with weapons, which led to one man reportedly hit in the head with an axe and police Tasering another man, in a scenario NT Police described only as a “large disturbance” suspected to have been caused by payback over an alleged killing last year.
The NT Environment Minister has given gas giant Santos environmental approval for its Darwin gas pipeline duplication project, with the NT EPA’s environmental assessment highlighting potential significant impacts from the project, including dredging, but also cited the NT government’s economic strategy for the Middle Arm industrial precinct.
A male pedestrian was killed after being hit by a road train on the Stuart Hwy on Thursday night, NT Police.
Chief Minister Eva Lawler has revealed her “vitally important” trip to Japan next week will cost taxpayers just over $19,000 for her and two staffers, while stating the trip is necessary to meet with Inpex because the NT Government’s relationship with the Japanese gas giant is “probably just as big as our relationship with the Federal Government”.
Five males of unknown ages have been arrested after allegedly stealing two vehicles from a Nightcliff residence they used for a crime spree throughout the Darwin CBD and northern suburbs overnight, including a ram raid at a Cavenagh Street bottle shop, NT Police said.
The Opposition CLP has accused the Lawler Labor Government of failing to address the dismal state of child health services in the Territory, where new figures show some children could be waiting up to two years for a consultation with a health specialist.
Former NT Administrator Vicki O’Halloran has left an executive position at Charles Darwin University less than four months after being directly appointed to the role without having to apply, the vice-chancellor has said.
Eva Lawler will take her first overseas trip as Chief Minister to Japan next week to “grow the Territory’s exports”, engaging in trade talks as part of the as yet un-costed trip, that the Opposition says needs to be disclosed to Territorians immediately.
